Investors buying bonds such as the $63 million Manteca Unified is preparing to sell for improvements at 11 campuses rely on the advice of bond underwriters to determine the soundness of a school district.

Fr. Jairo Ramirez, a popular priest among the parishioners of the Hispanic community of St. Anthony's Church in Manteca collapsed and died Saturday night while attending a Hispanic dinner dance at Modesto's St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

Plans to develop the Spreckels Sugar almond orchard 17 years ago brought howls of protest from residents in the adjacent Powers Tract neighborhood that is sandwiched today between Manteca High and Spreckels Park.

It was the donut and the cup of coffee on the dashboard of a restored Los Angeles Police car that drew attention to LA officer Bob Gelb as he drove into the registration line Saturday at the Emergency Car Show and Law Enforcement Recruiting Fair at the Ripon Community Center.

Two people went to the hospital at about 3:20 a.m. Monday with serious injuries after their pickup truck crashed into a tree after veering of the roadway while traveling northbound lanes in the 600 block of North Main Street.